Some thoughts, facts, and figures on the environmental impact that Apple's iPod and iTunes Store is having on the environment. (I wonder if Greenpeace considered this before raking Apple over the coals...)
Full article here...
http://torants.blogspot.com/2007/01/...al-impact.html
In early January, Steve Jobs announced that Apple had sold over 2,000,000,000 songs via the iTunes Store. That's about 166,000,000 CD's. Stacked one on top of each other, this pile of CD's (in their jewel cases) would reach almost 1050 miles high. If you tipped over this pile, it would extend more than 1/3rd of the way from New York to LA. If you laid the CD's down on the ground, they would cover 4.33 billion square inches which is about 640 acres of CD's. That's a lot of landfill...
Steve Jobs also announced that Apple is currently selling 5,000,000 songs per day. This is about 416,000 CD's per day. By buying your music from the Apple Store, you are helping to prevent a stack of CD's 2.6 miles high from having to be manufactured PER DAY.
Even my paltry 1500 songs have saved the landfills of the world from another 4 foot high stack of CD's.
Lets look at this another way. A CD along with a slim jewel case and 1-2 pages of liner weighs about 60 grams. That's about .13224 lbs. If a standard tractor trailer can move 80,000 lbs of product (or about 605,000 CD's) the Apple iTunes Store has saved about 275 tractor trailers worth of CD's from being manufactured and shipped and is adding to that by about 5 tractor trailers worth per week.
In my mind, just another reason to buy your music online
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